Fred thompson actor biography

Fred Dalton Thompson is an American actor, politician, attorney and lobbyist. He was born in 1942 in Sheffield, Alabama. He earned a bachelor degree from Memphis State University...Read more before earning a law degree from Vanderbilt in 1967. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Thompson worked as a successful attorney before accepting appointments to governmental bodies like the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He got his first acting role in the 1987 murder mystery "No Way Out." He served in the United States Senate representing Tennessee from 1994 to 2003. At the end of his Senate term in 2003, Thompson joined the cast of the NBC television series "Law & Order" as Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch. In May 2007, he put his acting aside to pursue the Republican nomination for president in the 2008 election, but dropped out in January 2008. He is best known for his roles in "Die Hard 2" (1990) and "In the Line of Fire" (

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Fred Dalton Thompson Biography

Date of Birth:
Aug 19, 1942Birth Place:
Sheffield, Alabama, USA

Biography

As an actor and former United States Senator, Fred Dalton Thompson had been both widely-recognized in prominent onscreen roles and active in important historical events. A former litigator, Thompson was plucked from private practice bygd former Tennessee senator Howard Baker in 1973 to serve as the Republican counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee. Thompson made an immediate splash, asking Richard Nixon's former deputy assist Alexander Butterfield the famous question, "[A]re you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the president?" Since then, Thompson achieved moderate success in all three fields of expertise - acting, politics and litigation. But it was his film and television persona - one incidentally not far afield from his political self - that made him a recognized face, but bygd no means, a household name. Fred Thompson died

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Fred Thompson

American politician and actor (1942–2015)

For other people with similar names, see Frederick Thompson.

Fred Thompson
Official portrait of Thompson
In office December 2, 1994 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by	Harlan Mathews
Succeeded by	Lamar Alexander
In office January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001
Preceded by	Joe Lieberman
Succeeded by	Joe Lieberman
In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2001
Preceded by	Ted Stevens
Succeeded by	Joe Lieberman
Born	Freddie Dalton Thompson (1942-08-19)August 19, 1942 Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
Died	November 1, 2015(2015-11-01) (aged 73) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouses	Sarah Knestrick ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1985)​ Jeri Kehn ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	5
Education	University of Memphis (BA) Vanderbilt University (JD)
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